krataias

Strong’sG2900

strong, powerful

stem kratai-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

κραταιός, -ά, -όν

(< κράτος), (in cl. poët. form of κρατερός), [in LXX chiefly for חָזָק and cognates;]

strong, mighty: I Pe 5:6.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2900 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkrat-ah-yos'

powerful

Fromfrom G2904;

King Jamesmighty.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κρᾰται-ός, ά, όν,
poetry form of κρατερός, strong, mighty, μοῖρα κραταιή Refs 8th c.BC+; of men, Refs 8th c.BC+; of a lion, κραταιοῦ θηρὸς ὑφ᾽ ὁρμῆς Refs 8th c.BC+; κ. ἔπος word of power,Refs 5th c.BC+; fierce, κ. καύματος ὥρᾳ poetical cited in Refs 2nd c.AD+ hard stone, Refs 3rd c.BC+; ἐν χειρὶ κ. with a mighty hand, LXX+2nd c.BC+: comparative, Refs 1st c.AD+: superlative, Refs; especially in magical and mystical writings, ἐν φωτὶ κ. καὶ ἀφθάρτῳ Refs the Mighty Ones, lamb.Refs 5th c.AD+, divinities presiding over certain periods of the month, Refs 3rd c.AD+; ἀστέρες, ζῴδιον, Refs; also ὁ κ. [μηνὸς Φαρμοῦθι] Refs 2nd c.AD+: with genitive, ruling over, ὦ τῶν πάντων ζώντων τε καὶ τεθνηκότων κραταιοί Refs; ὁ μέγιστος κ. θεὸς Σοκνοπαῖος Wilcken Refs 1st c.AD+. adverb -ῶς LXX+1st c.AD+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

mighty1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	masculine singular	feminine singular	neuter singular	masculine plural	feminine plural	neuter plural
subject nominative	krataios	krataias	krataiem	krataiois	krataiais	krataieim
object accusative	krataion	krataian1×κραταιὰν		krataioin	krataiain
direct address vocative	krataior	krataiar		krataioir	krataiair
of, belonging to genitive	krataiou	krataiau	krataieu	krataioiu	krataiaiu	krataieiu
to, for dative	krataio	krataia	krataie	krataioi	krataiai	krataiei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

krataistem+oaegender+smnru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kratai is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

krataiomō — κραταιόομαι, I strengthen, confirm, grow strong

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

krataian“mighty”objectaccusative singular1×

1 Peter 5:6Tapeinivar oun hupo tan krataian cheiran tou theou, hina vin hupsateia …Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, so that in due time …